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About This Book

Create both simple and complex animations using clear, step-by-step instructions, accompanied with screenshots

Walk through jQuery’s built-in animation methods and see in detail how each one can be used

Over 50 detailed examples of different types of web page animations

Attractive pictures and screenshots that show animations in progress and how the examples should finally appear

Contains examples featuring many new HTML5 elements and CSS3 styling

Follow the examples in a step-by-step approach beginning with simple concepts and building up to more advanced implementations

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for web designers and front-end developers who already have good knowledge of HTML and CSS, and some experience with jQuery. If you want to learn how to animate the user interface of your web applications with jQuery, then this book is for you.

Discover how the animation queue works and how it can be manipulated to create complex animations

Simulate animation in a variety of ways using other non-animation-specific jQuery methods

Discover how jQuery can be used to make the latest CSS3 and canvas animations work cross-browser

Obtain and set up jQuery UI— the official user interface library for jQuery

Define custom animations that can be complex and specialized

Extend the jQuery library with brand new functions and methods in the form of plugins

Get your images scrolled in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer

Create a continuous header animation manually with just a few lines of code

In Detail

Master animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors' interactions

jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. This book will act as a resource for you to create animation and advanced special effects in your web applications, by following the easy-to-understand steps mentioned in it.

jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide will allow you to master animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors' interactions. You will learn everything you need to know about creating engaging and effective web page animations using jQuery. The book uses many examples and explains how to create animations using an easy, step-by-step, beginners guide approach.

This book will provide you with...

This book provides various examples that gradually build up the reader’s knowledge and practical experience in using the jQuery API to create stunning animations. The book starts off by explaining how animations make your user interface interactive and attractive. It explains the various methods used to make the element being animated appear or disappear. It provides a set of steps to create simple animations and show fading animations.

You can later learn how to make complex animations by chaining different effects together as well as how to halt a currently running application. You will find out how to slide your animation elements and learn to create custom animations that can be complex and specialized.

You will find out how to obtain and set up the jQuery UI— the official user interface library for jQuery. The book will tell you how to animate a page's background image, and will teach you how to make images scroll in a certain direction and at a certain speed depending on the movement of the mouse pointer

Authors

Dan Wellman

Dan Wellman is an author and frontend engineer living on the South Coast of the UK and working in London. By day he works for Skype and has a blast writing application-grade JavaScript. By night he writes books and tutorials focused mainly on frontend web development. He is also a staff writer for the Tuts+ arm of the Envato network, and occasionally writes for .Net magazine. He's the proud father of four amazing children, and the grateful husband of a wonderful wife.

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